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“Will you have the courage to admit that I am a woman and that you want to kiss me? I would let you if you tried.”
Ares
Jesus!
I’ve never needed to work on self-control as hard as I do now. I feel the sweat wetting the back of my neck, I’m trying so hard not to pick her up and lay her on that bed.
How we went from a wistful conversation about the past to my dick being hard as steel I will never be able to understand, and this is the reassurance I need that I was right to stay away from her for the last two years. The attraction I feel has not diminished. Everything about Serenity provokes me, even her innocence.
I didn’t bring her to the plane suite to seduce her. I’m not a scoundrel.
“You don’t know what you’re saying. You feel sad and that’s why you think...”
I see her face turn red instantly. “Yes, that’s right,” she snaps, looking angry. “That’s why I moaned when you hit my butt again today. Because I’m confused and sad, not because my entire body was shaking and wanting more.”
After that rush of courage, she runs to the bathroom and locks herself inside, leaving me to process her words.
I didn’t use force any of the times I spanked her ass. I didn’t want to hurt her, only to show that she’s still a girl, and now she tells me she wants more?
Fuck!
I rub my hands over my face, trying to clear my mind, but it doesn’t work. So I send common sense to hell and walk to the bathroom, hunter instinct activated, but before I can reach her, I hear Hades calling me.
“I’m coming,” I yell. “Wait for me in the main cabin.”
“No. I need to talk to younow.”
I open the door, my mood gone to hell. “What do you want?”
“What do you think you are doing?” he asks.
“Serenity is none of your business.”
“No, butyouare. Don’t get involved with her, Ares. She is young and very vulnerable. She’s your ward, damn it!
I want to grab him by the collar and force him to sit in his seat, but I know he’s right, so I walk out and close the door behind me.
“It’s not a good idea to have her in your building. Maybe we can rearrange things. Increase the number of bodyguards but send her to another property.”
“No. She’s not going anywhere. Serenity will stay where I can keep an eye on her.”
“I hope, for your sake, that it’s just an eye.
Serenity
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
I spendthe rest of the trip lying on the plane’s bed and only get up when Hades comes to tell me that I need to go back to my seat, as we are about to land.
I can’t believe I had the courage to say what I did.
My God, I don’t even know how those words escaped. I’ve always related spanking to children, but feeling Ares’ hand slapping my bottom made me need to squeeze my thighs together both times it happened.
Pretending to doze off in my seat, I feel my face heat up as I remember what happened in the suite, and I thank the heavens that I’m alone, but when I open my eyes, I come face-to-face with the sovereign of my sinful thoughts, sitting right in front of me.
“Nothing will happen between us. I apologize for touching you.” His face is serious when he speaks. There is no irony, anger, or provocation; I feel my stomach sink.
I don’t know what I expected to hear after what I confessed to him, but it certainly wasn’t being rejected so completely.